Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The process of development of a baby from conception to birth in the mother’s womb. The period of growth initiated at conception and terminated by parturition (birth). The period during which a fetus is developing in the uterus, from conception to childbirth. If a baby is premature, its stage of development is indicated by its…

To carry a pregnancy to full term, gestation. To carry a baby in the womb from conception to birth.  

A humanistic-existential insight therapy approach developed by Fritz Peris to integrate dissociated thought, feelings, and actions into a whole, well-functioning self; focuses on nonverbal clues to unacknowledged needs, which the therapist encourages the patient to confront, Gestalt psychology. A form of psychotherapy that emphasizes treating the whole person by focusing on relationships and responses both…

The theory in psychology that the objects of the mind come as wholes which cannot be split into parts and which are unanalyzable. School of psychology that maintains that the mind perceives integrated wholes, not discrete parts; for example, that a triangle is perceived as a triangle, not as three lines. In Gestaltism, behavior is…

The process of learning in which learning is defined as gaining new insight, out-looks, or thought processes. Gestalt theorists view individuals, their environments, and interactions with their environments as occurring simultaneously and define this as the field, Gestalt therapy.  

A structure or configuration of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with characteristics not derivable from its parts in summation, gestaltism. The understanding of an experience in its entirety, rather than through an analysis of its components.  

One of the earliest instruments for assessing individual differences in the behavioral development of infants.  

A sexual variance in which a young person gains sexual gratification from having sexual relations with a person who is much older.  

A branch of the National Institute on Aging. Conducts research into behavior changes that take place with age, the aging process, age-related deterioration, and the inability of organisms to maintain their physiological control system and genetic information transfer system, gerontology.  

A physician or other professionally trained person who examines the clinical, biological, psychosocial, and historical aspects of aging, geriatrics; gerontology. A specialist in the scientific study of all aspects of the aging process, from clinical, biological, historical, mental, and sociological perspectives.